 Operation Mincemeat was a spectacular deception created by British intelligence to fool the Germans regarding the true target for the Allied invasion of Sicily. A dead body would be planted off the coast of Spain carrying secret documents which appeared to reveal that the targets for the upcoming invasion would be Greece and Sardinia. Once recovered by the Spanish authorities, the secret documents carried on the body were secretly opened, photographed and passed via Nazi sympathizers to German intelligence. The Germans acted swiftly on the false information by doubling the number of troops sent to Sardinia, while many additional German divisions were also transferred to Greece. The Allied invasion of Sicily was launched on the 9th of July 1943 and proved a huge surprise to the German defenders. Click on the link below to see the full video